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THE OTHER DAUGHTER of HAMELIN DE BALLON by Rosie Bevan 1 LOST IN TIME -179- LOST IN TIME: THE OTHER DAUGHTER OF HAMELIN DE BALLON by Rosie Bevan 1 ABSTRACT J Horace Round’s 1901 study of the descendants of Hamelin de Ballon, Lord of Abergavenny resulted in a documented pedigree from Hamelin’s daughter and heiress, Emmeline, which has met with general acceptance to this day2. However, recently published fines for Gloucestershire have revealed that Hamelin had another daughter and heiress, whose existence is barely traceable in medieval record. Her modern day descendants arise from English families such as Wortley of Wortley, Wentworth of Woodhouse and Hazlerigg of Noseley, and are legion. This article attempts to investigate her existence and trace some of her progeny, as well as augment the genealogy of the Ballon family as originally developed by Round. Foundations (2010) 3 (3): 179-215 © Copyright FMGand the author In 1901 Round published a detailed history of the Ballon family3 correcting the longstanding errors perpetuated by the Historia Fundationis cum Fundatoris Genealogia of Abergavenny priory, published by Dugdale in his Monasticon Anglicanum,4 an account which gave that Hamelin de Ballon, baron of Abergavenny founded Abergavenny priory in the late 11th century, but that he had died without issue and his lands passed to Brien fitz Count, son of his sister Lucy. The fictional family account was repeated by Dugdale not only in his Monasticon Anglicanum but also in The Baronage of England, from which his extraordinary account of the family gained currency as fact.5 This article enlarges on Round’s account of the Ballon family, documenting the male line from the eldest daughter into the fourteenth century, and tracing descendants of his younger daughter to the present day. 1 Contact details: [email protected] 2 G E Cokayne, CP (1910-1959), 1:19-20; Sanders, I J, English Baronies : a study of their origin and descent 1086-1327 (1960), 66; and more recently by K S B Keats-Rohan, Domesday Descendants, a prosopography of persons occurring in English documents 1066- 1166 (2002), 302. 3 J Horace Round, Studies in Peerage and Family History (1901), 181-215. The name Ballon also appears in contemporary record as Baladon, Baalun, Baalon, Balun, Badalon, Balaon etc. 4 William Dugdale, ed., Monasticon Anglicanum (1817-30), IV, 615. The 13th century account gives that Hamelin had three sisters, Emma, Lucy, Countess de Insula, and Beatrice, and on his death without issue, his heir was his nephew, Brian “filio comitis de Insula”, who held it during the reign of William Rufus. On taking the cross he went on crusade to Jerusalem and relinquished his estate to his cousin Walter the Constable (Walter de Gloucester, son of Roger de Pitres), from whence it passed to Philip de Braose by inheritance. It seems this piece of monastic fiction may have been designed to claim baronial tenure of Abergavenny by hereditary right. 5 William Dugdale, The Baronage of England (1675), 1:435. Dugdale’s account was dismissed by Round in his usual inimitable way, “It would be difficult to pack more errors into so small a space…” -180- LOST IN TIME Fig 1. St Mary’s Priory, Abergavenny The priory was founded in the early 12th century by Hamelin de Ballon. Following the dissolution, the priory church of St Mary continued in use as a parish church. [http://www.stmarys-priory.org/history.htm ] Photographed by the author, 2005. LOST IN TIME -181- Hamelin de Ballon In 1093, on the death of Rhys ap Tewdwr, king in Deheubarth, William Rufus turned his attention to the continuing Norman colonization of south east Wales by conquest. The onslaught, led by the earls of Chester and Shrewsbury, focused on the lower Usk valley in Monmouthshire, to Caerleon where Rufus placed Winebald de Ballon as lord, and then to Abergavenny, situated at the strategically important junction of the rivers Usk and Gavenni, where an outcrop of rock commanded views over the surrounding countryside and important trade routes. At this consolidated stronghold Rufus placed Winebald’s brother, Hamelin, (who built a castle of motte and bailey construction there) and gave him the surrounding region in Netherwent, as well as manorial properties in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.6 According to an account by the monks of the abbey of St. Vincent, Hamelin and Winebald originated from Ballon, Maine,7 and while nothing more is known about their ancestry, family ties indicate they were men with important connections. These included kinship with the Chaworth family and Ernulf de Hesdin, possibly through Ernulf’s wife, Emmeline, for in 1100 Patrick de Chaworth made a gift to the priory of St Peter at Bath of 5 hides in Weston with the church and tithes. These were specifically made for the souls of king William (Rufus) and his parents, king Henry, Patrick himself and his wife (Maud de Hesdin), Hamelin and Winebald de Ballon, and Arnulf de Hesdin, his deceased father-in-law, who had held Weston before him. Hamelin and Winebald head the list of witnesses of the charter, and also witnessed Henry I’s confirmation charter of this grant.8 Chronology might suggest Emmeline, wife of Arnulph de Hesdin, was sister of the Ballon brothers, and in support of 6 David Crouch, “The Transformation of Medieval Gwent,” in The Gwent County History: vol. 2, the Age of the Marcher Lords, c. 1070-1536. ed. Ralph A Griffiths et al., (2008), 1-18. 7 “Notification that Hamelin born at Ballon (de castello Baladone natus) a noble and most prudent man, endowed with most ample gifts and honours, for his industry, by William king of the English, son of the most wealthy king William, came to the abbey of St. Vincent and St. Lawrence, and sought [admission to] the benefits of the place, begging that, for love of him, the monks would receive Hubert, a knight of his, into the monastery. At whose earnest entreaty they received that knight into their order, for love of him, and also consented to make [Hamelin] himself with his wife and his sons, and a knight of his, Odo de Tirun, who was with him, partaker in all the benefits [of their order]. And Hamelin gave them the chapel of his castle, which the above glorious king had given him, which in the British tongue they call ‘Bergevenis,’ and all the appurtenances present and future of its church and in the castle (sic); and land for making a principal church in which they should serve God, and land for their own dwellings, and gardens, and orchards, and vineyards, and all things necessary, a bourg also and an oven of their own, with water for a mill, and fishing in his waters wherever their men would fish. He also gave elsewhere one church with all its appurtenances, and land for ten ploughs, and all the tithes of the ploughs he had or might have in demesne. All this he gave as freely as he held it of the king, and he placed his gift on the altar. He promised also that he would make the king agree to (annuere) this and confirm the charter, and would help them [to induce] his knights similarly to grant (annuerent) their tithes.” J H Round, Calendar of Documents Preserved in France: 918-1206 (1899), 367-369. 8 “.. pro anima Willelmi regis patris ejus matrisque Mathildis reginae ac fratris ipsius Henrici regis cujus assensu actum est et pro animabus omnium tam predecessorum quam successorum ejus seu et pro anima mea et uxoris ac liberorum meorum animabus pro animabus etiam Hamelini et Winebaldi de Baalun elemosinae hujus fautorum et adhortatorum ac pro animabus Arnulfi de Hesding qui predictam terram ante me tenuit et Warini clerici mei insuper et pro animabus omnium antecessorum ac posterorum meorum Pro supradicta autem elemosina in perpetuum memoriale donationis meae monachum unum fratrum numero adjici a domino Johanne episcopo precibus obtinui pro anima regis Willelmi deum deprecaturum Cujus rei testes sunt Hamelinus et Winebaldus de Baalun…”. William Hunt, ed., Two Chartularies of the Priory of St. Peter at Bath (1893), 104. The three men are also grouped together in a 1101 confirmation charter made at Windsor by Henry I of his predecessor’s gifts to Bath. William Hunt op.cit. (1893), 44-46. -182- LOST IN TIME theoretical Ballon ancestry is the fact that her grandson son, Pain de Chaworth, gave land in the parish of St. Medard in Ballon to the abbey of Le Mans in 1167.9 Winebald de Ballon was already established in England by 1092, by which time he had granted to Bermondsey Priory the manor of Bridesthorn, half the manor of Upton, Berkshire, as well as tithes in his manor of Eastington, and ten shillings from his mill at Sutton in Gloucestershire.10 As well as the fief at Caerleon worth 16 ¼ knights’ fees William Rufus gave Winebald the lands of Thurstan fitz Rolf, who died during the Welsh uprising in 1096, which included South Cadbury, Somerset. The fact that Winebald is known as holding land in Eastington, before Hamelin obtained it, would suggest that he granted his holdings to Hamelin as tenant, who held them thereafter and this is borne out by the descent of the overlordship of this estate.11 Hamelin founded St Mary’s priory in Abergavenny as a cell of St Vincent of Le Mans and endowed it with the churches of Great Cheverell, Great Sutton, the chapel of Abergavenny castle, and the tithes from churches in Over Gwent.12 These churches have since been identified as those of Llangatwg Lingoed, Llanddewi Rhydderch, Llanelen, and Pen-rhos, the last of which possessed a monastic grange.13 Hamelin was also benefactor of St Saviour, Bermondsey, to which he granted a 10 shilling tithe from Eastington.14 Hamelin’s whole fief must have been worth more than 14 knight’s fees in total, for the barony of Abergavenny alone was later assessed at 12 fees in 1230 while Sutton 9 J H Round, Calendar of Documents Preserved in France (1899), 359-371.
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